DARPA said its s requesting industry feedback on what it called the extreme challenge problems in optics and imaging.
“For the purposes of this RFI, extreme challenges encompass systems, components, devices, processing schemes, or design/optimization tools that drastically outperform the current state of the art, and expand the limits of what is typically deemed possible using conventional design methodologies. Responses should completely alter the current design paradigm of a given extreme challenge, and pave the way for fundamentally unique solutions; incremental, evolutionary advances are not of interest.”
Michael Cooney |
24 Aug |
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IBM today took cybersecurity threat sharing to a new level it opened its vast library of security intelligence data to public or private entities building defenses against cybercrimes.
Michael Cooney |
17 Apr |
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Given the amount of time the FTC and others have put into curing the robocall problem, it is disheartening to hear that a group of companies for almost a year have been making billions of illegal robocalls.
Michael Cooney |
05 Mar |
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Federal IT projects have hit the critical care list all too often and now watchdogs at the Government Accountability Office have moved those undertakings to its <a href="http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-15-290">High Risk List</a> which means Congress and the executive branch should take an extra special look at the situation.
Michael Cooney |
12 Feb |
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Corporations will be asked to contribute cyber intelligence to a new federal agency tasked with analyzing threat data culled from as many public and private sources as possible in order to more quickly spot attacks and attribute them to the guilty parties.
Michael Cooney |
11 Feb |
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The scams that plague the IRS were on display again this week as the Federal Trade Commission said the number of consumer complaints about criminals impersonating IRS officials was nearly 24 times more than in 2013.
Michael Cooney |
27 Jan |
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The FBI and IRS separately this week warned of a couple timeworn but highly effective scams that continue to grow and strip businesses and consumers of cash.
Michael Cooney |
23 Jan |
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IBM says there's good and bad news when it comes to retail cyber attacks: While overall network assaults are down by 50%, when they hit, cyber-attackers get a ton of data.
Michael Cooney |
07 Jan |
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When it comes to battling sophisticated cyber attacks, Chief Information Security Officers feel well outgunned by the seedy underside of the Internet intent on wrecking havoc on their enterprise environments.
Michael Cooney |
10 Dec |
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The Federal Trade Commission today said a federal court has temporarily shut down two telemarketing operations that it says conned tens of thousands of consumers out of more than $120 million by deceptively marketing computer software and tech support services.
Michael Cooney |
20 Nov |
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Many people should be wary of Internet ads, especially for large ticket items, but apparently enough folks aren't. The Internet Crime Complaint Center today said over $20 million has been scammed and more than 6,800 complaints have been logged between June 2009 and June 2014 over rip-off ads.
Michael Cooney |
15 Nov |
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The FBI this week said it had nabbed one of the agency's <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/cyber">Cyber's Most Wanted</a> outlaws -- John Gordon Baden who is charged with stealing the identities of 40,000 people and then using the information to siphon millions of dollars from brokerage or bank accounts.
Michael Cooney |
06 Nov |
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Not that it needed the reminder that scams suck, but the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) warned today that a new e-mail scam is making the rounds that uses the IC3 as the fraud contrivance.
Michael Cooney |
25 Sep |
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The Federal Trade Commission today announced the rules for its second robocall exterminating challenge, known this time as Zapping Rachel Robocall Contest. "Rachel From Cardholder Services," was a large robocall scam the agency took out in 2012.
Michael Cooney |
19 Jul |
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Yes I suppose it is what it is, but sadly you can't travel on business or vacation and let your electronic guard down.
Michael Cooney |
09 Jul |
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